FORMER U.S. SENATORS ON FRAUD CHARGES
I ■ WASHiNGTON, January 24. The Attorney-General, Mr. Clark, has announced that a Federal Grand Jury has indicted the former House J of Representatives' member, Andrew j Alay (Democrat, Kentucky), and also Henry M. Garson and Joseph F. Freeman, former olficials of the Erie Basin Metal Products Company and the Batavia Metal Products Company and prominent war contractors, on : harges of conspiring to defraud the Government. Mr. Clark said that one count ulleges that May agrecd to receive from these firms a total of 53,634 dollars. May was defeated in November after serving in Congress since 1930. Garson organised 19 firms into a combine which received 78,000,000 dollars in war contracts. Freeman was their Washington representative.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5311, 25 January 1947, Page 5
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